PARALLELISM-ANTITHESIS  

對文法 PARALLELISM with antithetic parallel elements; see LEXICAL RELATIONS: ANTONYMS.

NB: ANTITHESIS is involved as an integral part in many other rhetorical devices.

Hypernym
  • PARALLELISMREPETITIO of the structural organisation of an expression.Structural parallelism, which is typically a complicate matter of degrees depending on how detailed the description is on which one's notion of parallelism is based.. Traditionally sometimes called PARISON.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
REF: Lausberg 787-807; Miriam 137

EX: quod licet Iovi non licet bovi.

Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave

And plant your joys in living Edward's throne. Shakespeare R 3, 2.2.99

Greek/Latin: Ubiquitous. But the ancient term ajntivqesi" referred to a different phenomenon, namely the "barbaric" use of one letter for another: Cons. ars p. 8.13: antithesis est, cum littera rpo littera ponitur. Also Isidor, orig. 1.35.6. The proper Greek term in ancient rhetoric is actually antitheton, as by Quint 9.3.81.

Ancient Chinese: Ubiquitous, a universally acknowledged central part of ancient Chinese rhetoric. Deserves a close study. Contrast PARALLELISM.

Rhetorical device locations: 24
  • 韓非子 大姦唱則小盜和。
  • 道德經 此兩者同出而異名， 同謂之玄

    同／異

  • 道德經 常使民無知、無欲， 使夫知者不敢為也

    民／智者

  • 道德經 眾人熙 如享太牢 如春登臺 我獨泊兮其未兆

    眾人／我

  • 道德經 眾人皆有餘， 而我獨若遺 我愚人之心也哉

    眾人／我

  • 論語 「夷狄之有君， 不如諸夏之亡也

    夷狄／諸夏 ; 有／無

  • 論語 「君子懷德，

    君子／小人

  • 論語 君子懷刑，

    君子／小人

  • 論語 「君子喻於義， 小人喻於利

    君子／小人

  • 論語 一則以喜， 一則以懼

    喜 / 懼

  • 論語 無喜色； 三已之 無慍色

    喜色 / 慍色

  • 論語 「女為君子儒。 無為小人儒

    君子／小人

  • 論語 「君子坦蕩蕩， 小人長戚戚

    君子／小人

  • 論語 故進之； 由也兼人 故退之

    進／退

  • 論語 「苟正其身矣， 於從政乎何有 不能正其身 如正人何

    身／人

  • 論語 見小利則大事不成。」

    小利／大事

  • 論語 「君子易事而難說也：

    易／難

  • 論語 小人難事而易說也；

    易／難

  • 論語 「君子而不仁者有矣夫？ 未有小人而仁者也

    君子／小人

  • 論語 「其言之不怍， 則為之也難

    言／為

  • 論語 無求生以害仁， 有殺身以成仁

    害／成

  • 論語 言不及義， 好行小慧

    義／小慧

  • 論語 小不忍， 則亂大謀

    小／大

  • 論語 焉能為有？ 焉能為亡

    有／無